In the annual EUNIS Conference, held in Santiago de Compostela (Spain) on June 22-26th 2009, CINECA (Italy) and MUCI (Poland) were raised in the RS3G Workshop a proposal to facilitate mobility, one of the main objectives of European Higher Education Area (EHEA).
Sigma Gestión Universitaria, gives support to this general consensus to collaborate in this project.
This is an open (re)call for participation to a project about mobility in Higher Education.
The objective is to establish a strong partnership to develop the following proposal.
Proposal
Aim:
- Facilitate mobility – one of the main objectives of European Higher Education Area (as stated in the London Communiqué 2007, and emphasized in the Leuven Communiqué 2009)
Specific Objectives:
- Reduce administrative inefficiencies/problems in handling mobility data and procedures (intra-university)
- Streamline the communication flow among partner institutions (inter-universities )
- Interconnect universities in a international network
- Digitize mobility documents (secure, authentic, transparent, tamper-proof)
- Produce reliable and accessible mobility statistics (EC interest)
Distinctive Traits:
- The value of the project is directly proportional to the number of active participants – the “network effect”.
- Economies of scale could be triggered faster by interconnecting the consortia and established implementers first – connect one, serve many – the “Hub-and-Spoke” approach.
- Adopting “Standards” specifications for an open, accessible and efficient implementation
- Leveraging established Federated Identity Management technologies.
The proposal builds on the pilot prototype developed by 2 University Consortia – CINECA (Italy) and MUCI (Poland) - recently presented at both the RS3G Workshop and the annual EUNIS Conference held in Santiago de Compostela on June 22-26th 2009.
The presentation and paper are available here: http://www.rs3g.org/activities/future-events/20090622_eunis
So far the idea to collaborate on this project raised general consensus in the audience and explicit expression of interest by several major European University Consortia and/or Student Management Systems implementers like: CINECA (Italy), MUCI (Poland), LADOK (Sweden), HIS (Germany), Oodi (Finland), SURF/Studielink (Netherlands), OCU (Spain), SIGMA (Spain) ,FS (Norway), CSIESR (France), to name a few.
This is an OPEN call, again. Mobility is the “hallmark” of the European Higher Education Area, therefore any organization at stake willing to contribute is welcome to join in – the impact of the project is directly related to the number of active participants. However, due to the very nature of the project, the “preferred” profile is that of a partner with willingness and ability to execute and (some of) the following characteristics:
- installed universities (customer) base (software implementers - CINECA, MUCI...)
- means of promoting and disseminating the project (organizations – EUNIS, EAIE...)
- experience in European Funding Programs (LLP, TEMPUS, CIP...) and proven track record of successful project participation.
- lobbying channels into the European Commission (DG EAC)
- International mobility expertise (IROs)
- involvement in standardization activities (MLO, ELM, SCHAC..)
IF you want to jump on the bandwagon this is the time to do so. It is very simple, please
- reply to this email by AUGUST 31st 2009, stating explicitly that you want to participate (no particular wording)
- provide the list of universities you manage and indicating whether your solutions have an integrated or 3rd party mobility module (if it applies – this is very important information to accurately assess the potential impact of the project)
Next steps:
- collect responses and finalize extended partnership (by September)
- schedule a project (re)kick-off meeting (mid October)
- seek out funding opportunities for the project (already started)
- schedule a joint workshop between RS3G and TF-EMC2 (Spring 2010)
- present the update on the project at EUNIS 2010 in Warsaw (June 2010)
Simone Ravaioli
Director, International Affairs
Phone +39 051 6111487
Mobile: +39 333 8484153
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